#secrets

Those who support such survivors of abuse often find it difficult to hear the reality of those survivors' lives and experience and are often unsupported themselves. Rather than being supported, workers are often ridiculed, castigated or accused of being gullible or of giving the survivor false memories. Many workers work in isolation and a climate of hostility and are unable to talk about the work they do. Yes, despite all the odds, survivors of ritual abuse are beginning to speak out about their experiences, and some people, mainly in voluntary organisations, are beginning to listen to them and support them. [Published 2001] ↗

— Laurie Matthew

#child-abuse #childabuse #childhood-abuse #false-memories #healing

U.S. nuclear technology is one of this nation's most valuable secrets, and it should have been protected. ↗

— Charles Foster Bass

#most #nation #nuclear #protected #secrets

The story of my family. . .changes with the teller. ↗

— Jennifer Haigh

#families #narrators #perspective #religion #secrets

if you were quiet and blended into the background, you were less likely to make waves ↗

— Jodi Picoult

#secrets #life

You can have your secret as long as I have your heart[.] ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#love #secrets #trust #love

The Founding Fathers gave the free press the protection it must have to bare the secrets of government and inform the people. ↗

— Hugo Black

#fathers #founding #founding fathers #free #free press

I always considered myself very successful even before the success of Secrets and Lies. ↗

— Brenda Blethyn

#before #considered #even #i #i always

I knew Secrets and Lies was a great film, but I didn't expect it to get the attention it did because none of his other films had and I thought they were just as good. ↗

— Brenda Blethyn

#because #did #expect #film #films

From a scientist's perspective, to understand everything that you need to know about human beings, you only have to tinker with all the mechanical parts of genes and the brain until there are no more secrets left. ↗

— Deepak Chopra

#beings #brain #everything #genes #human

None are so fond of secrets as those who do not mean to keep them. ↗

— Charles Caleb Colton

#keep #mean #none #secrets #them